A bright smile appeared on Princess Anastasia's face.
Inside the tent that was my temporary residence, so additional guests were visiting .
Princess Anastasia, Alice, Alyssa, and Mio joined the afternoon tea party in my tent.
After experiencing Princess Anastasia's selfishness and greed, who was not satisfied with kissing my lips nonstop, I needed to warn her not to be too excessive in her worldly greed.
Princess Anastasia made good use of her free ti before Mio returned to my tent, carrying a trolley filled with hot tea and winter snacks for tea party.
The fragrant tea with the aroma of flowers imdiately filled my tent.
Besides the warm tea, several simple chocolate snacks from the Yurification Shop filled the tray in front of my eyes.
"What strange snacks, this is the first ti I've seen them," said Princess Anastasia as she watched Mio arrange the chocolate snacks according to the fair portion size.
"Onee-sama, may I eat chocolate more than seven tis today?" Alice asked as she looked at her portion of chocolate snacks which amounted to three.
Apart from chocolate snacks, there are several pastry snacks combined with pre-ward jam and cream. Even for plain bread that has no taste, just dipping the bread in warm tea provides the right amount of enjoynt.
"Alice, if you eat chocolate more than seven tis, then you have to be prepared to get so punishnt from Mama because your chocolate addiction is difficult to control and Lily-nee... please don't give Alice chocolates beyond the amount specified by Mio!" said Alyssa who warned Mio and about the amount of chocolate for Alice.
The chocolate snacks from the Yurification Shop taste delicious and have strange shapes. For example, cookies that contain chocolate granules on top, because of their delicious texture and delicious chocolate taste, Alice once beca an excessive chocolate addict, making her body fat for a while.
The pleasure of the chocolate snack was paid off by Alice's excessive weight gain and I still rember the strict diet my mother went through to make Alice's body healthy again with a normal weight.
"I already understand, Alyssa-sama. Following Marchioness Amagi's instructions to limit excessive snacks that can cause weight gain," Mio replied by giving a plate filled with snacks.
Pamm...
Pammm...
Mio gave a cup of warm tea along with ward jam.
I then took a spoon and put a spoonful of jam into the warm tea.
With slow movents and enjoying the warm jam mixed with the tea, I could taste the fresh tea leaves mixed with the sweet jam in my mouth.
"Mmpphh... this is delicious. It's a sha that I can only enjoy this at the afternoon tea party so that I don't overdo it in eating these delicious snacks," I said while enjoying every sip of warm jam that filled my mouth. The texture of the jam made from fruits burst in my mouth and gave an explosive sweet taste in my mouth.
This simple afternoon tea party in winter would be the last ti it was held before all the Maids and Butlers of the Marquess Roml family worked together to clean the main mansion of Marquess Roml.
Alice enjoyed a slice of bread covered in chocolate on top. One bite of the bread made Alice look like a cat enjoying her lunch quietly.
Alyssa quietly enjoyed a snack of cookies sprinkled with small chocolates on top. Every crunch of the cookies made Alyssa's mouth dry and imdiately sip her sweet warm tea.
Princess Anastasia who still didn't understand about the snacks served by Mio just looked between and my twin stepsister. She seed to be looking for information about the etiquette for eating snacks that looked foreign in front of her eyes.
Princess Anastasia seed to understand the etiquette of eating the snacks given by Mio. By taking a handful of spoons and adjusting her eating position, Princess Anastasia imdiately took a few slices of bread covered in chocolate on top. The lted chocolate that was still warm displayed thin smoke from the warmth after being heated.
The spoon containing the pieces of bread covered in chocolate imdiately entered Princess Anastasia's mouth.
"Hmm!! This is delicious!" shouted Princess Anastasia when enjoying the first bite of one of the foods from the Yurification Shop.
"I didn't know that Marquess Roml had such a skilled chef. If I had known, I would have visited Marquess Roml's residence every day!" Princess Anastasia continued to shout.
"With all due respect, Princess Anastasia. If you visit our residence every day, then our family's position as a neutral noble will return to a noble family that supports the royal family," said Alyssa, interrupting Princess Anastasia.
"Eehh… isn't that fine? I just need to use the excuse of monitoring the neutral noble family so as not to cause suspicious underground movents like the noble family that is an opponent of the royal family," with her calm attitude, Princess Anastasia gave Alyssa resistance.
Without my interference in their conversation, I could see sparks between their gazes.
"We will be busy restoring our main mansion to be habitable again, Princess Anastasia. Your presence will disrupt our already busy activities after returning from the family vacation," replied Alyssa while sipping a cup of her warm tea.
"Don't worry, I can bring so Maids and Butlers who work for personally to help you. Surely you need the help of many people to clean the main mansion that looks like an ancient building," with Princess Anastasia's extraordinary composure, she managed to withstand the harsh rejection uttered by Alyssa along with other reasons that needed other considerations.
"As one of the subjects who serve the Aurora Kingdom, it would be considered impolite for us to borrow the help of people related to Princess Anastasia. We would be ashad to borrow help for such a trivial matter, Princess Anastasia. Marquess Roml's maids and butlers are more than enough to clean our main mansion," Alyssa replied with a logical reason that made Princess Anastasia click her tongue a little.
The battle of words seed very balanced before Alyssa issued an ultimatum that left Princess Anastasia unable to move.
"To be honest, Princess Anastasia's sudden presence has troubled Marquess Roml and Earl Timoti. Princess Anastasia also ignored the summons from the Royal Palace and made the work that requires your special attention pile up, right?"
"I advise Princess Anastasia to return and take care of your piled-up work before sothing goes wrong in the Royal Palace."
"If even a small mistake occurs, Princess Anastasia will be taken by force. For example, like the grain storage building that exploded because of a spark that ca from who knows where."
Swiippp...
Poooppp...
Saying that sentence, Alyssa took out a teleportation magic formation and a fireball magic formation.
When the fireball from the fireball spell passed through the teleportation magic formation, it disappeared and moved to the next teleportation magic formation.
I could tell Alyssa's mindset when she made a threat like this.
With her extraordinary magical abilities, Princess Anastasia had no choice but to follow Alyssa's advice after seeing the implied threat from the magic formation show in front her eyes.
"I understand my obligations as one of the Princesses of the Aurora Kingdom."
Princess Anastasia maintained her composure well, even after seeing the threat from Alyssa who did not welco her well, she still remained calm like a graceful and dignified Princess.
"Then, I will take so of my duties to this place. Just like Marquess Roml did in running his business and arranging his territory from a distance," replied Princess Anastasia with a gentle smile and her undaunted resistance in the face of Alyssa's threats.
Princess Anastasia and Alyssa smiled at each other.
In my eyes, the threats and evasions that were made were completely on different levels of conversation.
Alice, Mio, and I who heard it were speechless.
Their verbal war and cleverness in finding a loophole for an excuse were truly beyond doubt.
It was like watching two cats fighting each other over a nap box.
Princess Anastasia looked like a cat that had been trained to calm down when stressed but had other plans not to be far from the box that would beco her nap place.
Alyssa looked like a cat that had occupied her nap box and was trying to ward off other intruders who tried to enter the area of the nap box.
The two cats fighting each other with their tails raised in peace crossed my mind.
I went back to enjoying my snacks and warm tea.
"Onee-sama, it seems like I see a fight that is hard to avoid," whispered Alice who leaned in close to whisper near my ear.
"Lily-sama, will it be okay about Alyssa-sama fighting with Princess Anastasia like that?" this ti Mio whispered to .
For so reason, Alice and Mio seed to be throwing this problem at in hopes of solving a problem that occurred just from verbal exchanges.
"Haaa…" I took a short breath that contained my heavy burden to solve this problem.
"Princess Anastasia… I understand about you wanting to help . But we already have enough people. Ciel and Sia will co with their followers to help us restore the main mansion of the Marquess Roml family," I said to stop the war of words between Princess Anastasia and Alyssa.
Princess Anastasia fell silent after hearing my words with dark eyes that did not emit any light.
"Ciel?"
"Sia?"
"Sounds like a woman's na…"
I could see the movent of Princess Anastasia's murmured lips with her body trembling violently.
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